Chapter 400: Deception
"Finally, ......Your Excellency the FΓΌhrer," Qin Chuan said to Hitler, "We need you to put on a posture of reinforcing Greece with all your might." You know, the intelligence services of the British were pervasive, so meetings, telegrams, even conversations with staff officers, etc., until we launched a counteroffensive! β
Hitler smiled and nodded: "Yes, the British have carefully designed a trap for us. Now, it's time for us to get back to color! β
Then Hitler shook Qin Chuan's hand and said, "Very good plan, captain, good plan!" Next, it's all about firm execution and waiting for victory! β
In the end, Hitler asked Canaris and Ron to personally send Rommel and Qin Chuan on the plane.
You can imagine how Canaris felt at that time...... However, although he was very unhappy in his heart, he still had to show gratitude on the surface.
"Unthinkable!" Canaris said to Rommel: "Thanks to the captain for finding the flaw this time, otherwise Colonel Roenner and I would have made a big mistake." General ......"
Saying that, Canaris glanced at Qin Chuan: "I envy you very much for having such excellent subordinates, if you can......"
"No!" Rommel refused without thinking: "I think he should play a role on the battlefield rather than investigating some suspicious elements, do you say?" β
Rommel made a pun.
"Oh yes!" Canaris smiled awkwardly.
When the plane took off, Qin Chuan looked at Canaris and Ron with serious faces outside through the glass window, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.
This was the head of the German military intelligence, and Colonel Roenner, who was quite famous in the intelligence service...... In the end, they were all executed for planning a failed assassination attempt on Hitler.
Many people believe that Canaris was opposed to the war and Hitler from the beginning, but Qin Chuan did not think so.
You must know that the reason why Canaris was able to become a general is because he has made great contributions to the intelligence unit.
If Canaris was against the war from the very beginning, how did the spy network of the German Military Intelligence Service spread around the world come from? How did the world-famous Brandenburg detachment come about?
Everyone knows that these are prepared for war.
Therefore, Canaris's opposition to the war and to Hitler should have started from his judgment that Germany would lose the war...... This was obviously more commonplace, as Canaris was able to gather more intelligence and data from which he could compare and analyze whether Germany had the strength to confront the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States.
At the same time, it is understandable that after he analyzed that Germany would lose the war, the overthrow of Hitler's rule and the end of the war as soon as possible would enable Germany to reduce its losses as much as possible.
What Qin Chuan didn't know was whether the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau had already changed his judgment on the war at this time!
"Captain!" Rommel pulled Qin Chuan back from his contemplation: "You should take this time to rest, Algeria still has a lot of things waiting for us!" β
"Yes, General!" Qin Chuan replied.
Rommel was right, and after arriving in Algeria, Qin Chuan and Rommel immediately got busy again.
The first is to convene a meeting of the division commanders.
Needless to say, Rommel announced to the officers: "We have accurate information that the enemy will land in Greece!" β
"No, General!" Qin Chuan retorted: "I always thought that the enemy would land in Sicily!" β
General Stryk agreed.
"General!" He said to Rommel: "Could this 'exact information' be what the captain called 'deliberately revealed information'?" β
"No!" Rommel replied: "The Supreme High Command has repeatedly verified and confirmed the credibility of this information, and I repeat, the enemy's landing place will be Greece!" Greece! β
Major General Foigt said to Qin Chuan proudly: "Captain, I know this, I know that you must be thinking too much, sometimes the battlefield is not as complicated as you think, understand?" You need more refining opportunities! But it doesn't matter, you're still young and have time! β
Qin Chuan pretended to be angry, but he was thinking in his heart...... This fool was deceived and even sold his deceived strategy to others.
Rommel's expression told Qin Chuan that he had similar thoughts, so Qin Chuan knew that this Major General Foigt was likely to be kicked out of the Afrika Korps by Rommel, but that should be after the war.
Of course, this is a scene played by Rommel and Qin Chuan, on the one hand, to make the play more real, and on the other hand, to make everyone prepare to reinforce Greece.
As for Qin Chuan's objections...... This is normal, in fact, the controversy over Sicily or Greece has never been broken in the army, and even this battle in history has developed to the point where "everyone except Hitler knows that the real goal of the Allies is Sicily".
One can imagine how depressed the German army was when they fought this war, especially Rommel...... Knowing that Hitler was wrong, he still had to obey Hitler's orders and watched the Allies seize Sicily without reinforcements.
On the other hand, Hitler's feints also unfolded in a step-by-step manner.
The next day, Hitler convened a meeting of the Supreme High Command, in which he ordered: "I call on all German command organs concerned with the defense of the Mediterranean to cooperate quickly and closely, to strengthen as much as possible in the area of special crisis with all the forces and equipment that remains, and to take measures against the Peloponnese before anything else!" Thank God, I've always had a good sense of smell for everything, so I can always smell things before they happen! β
"We have the Balkans, copper, iron, bauxite, chromium and oil, and that is really vital and above all to ensure ...... Don't happen the kind of thing I call a 'total collapse' there! β
The ensuing operation also developed in this direction entirely, and the 1st Panzer Division in France immediately set out, which was loaded with 100 wagons and spent seven days urgently reinforcing Greece. Then there was the 1st Adolf Hitler Guard Banner Panzer Division, which took 9 days to transport 300 wagons to Greece...... This division was originally thought to be the Imperial Guards in the role of a vase, but it showed extraordinary combat effectiveness on the battlefield.
The defenses of Sicily were not strengthened in the slightest, and were even weakened, some units were transferred to Greece, and even German minesweepers, which were laying mines near the southern coast of Sicily, were transferred to Greece, along with motor-torpedo boats.
All this led the Allies to believe that Germany had been tricked, but this was not the case.